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CALENDAR E11 LOSANGELESTIMES MesaAirGroup desiretohaveanexcitingcareerintheaviationindustry! Pleasejoinuson: Hilton-Airport 5711W.CenturyBlvd 310.410.4000 DoorsCloseat6pmsharp! Professionalattireispreferred Minimumrequirements: torelocatetoanyassignedbase www.mesa-air.com 2005RegionalAirlineoftheYearATW Prior to attending the interview session, please fill out the online application at www.mesa-air.com. You will be emailed an invitation once your application has been completed. If you are unable to attend this session we welcome you to visit our website for a complete list of upcoming interviewing sessions. No phone calls please. FLIGHTATTENDANTINTERVIEWS Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Aug.

14-20) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 Got Talent (Thu.) NBC12.05 2 Got Talent (Wed.) NBC11.63 3 60 MinutesCBS11.50 4 CSI: MiamiCBS10.71 5 So You Think You Can Dance 9 p.m.) FOX10.65 --------------------------------------------6 CSICBS10.40 7 House (9 p.m.)FOX10.30 8 Without a Trace 9 Kitchen (9 p.m.)FOX9.54 10 Without a Trace --------------------------------------------11 Cold CaseCBS9.34 12 Two and a Half Men (9 p.m.) CBS9.18 13 PrimetimeABC8.88 14 CSI: NYCBS8.78 15 Big Brother 7 --------------------------------------------16 Law Order 17 Preseason 18 Two and a Half Men (8 p.m.) CBS8.08 19 So You Think You Can Dance 8 p.m.) FOX8.03 20 Law Order: SVUNBC7.92 --------------------------------------------21 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC7.80 22 House (8 p.m.)FOX7.79 23 Big Brother 7 24 Big Brother 7 25 Kitchen (8 p.m.)FOX7.63 --------------------------------------------26 Old ChristineCBS7.50 27 Funniest Home Videos ABC7.46 28 Criminal MindsCBS7.44 29 Anatomy 9 p.m.) ABC7.33 30 48 Hours Mystery --------------------------------------------31 Primetime: Medical Mysteries ABC7.07 32 Anatomy 33 How I Met Your MotherCBS6.76 34 Rockstar: Supernova (Tue.) CBS6.51 35 --------------------------------------------36 Anatomy 8 p.m.) ABC6.04 37 48 Hours Mystery 38 Law Order 39 Wife Swap (9 p.m.)ABC5.79 40 Preseason --------------------------------------------41 Teen 42 43 My Name Is EarlNBC5.64 44 According to Jim (9:30 p.m.) ABC5.59 45 Primetime: The OutsidersABC5.58 --------------------------------------------46 Funniest Home Videos (Fri.) ABC5.56 47 Rock Star: Supernova (Wed.) CBS5.53 48 WindfallNBC5.45 49 Dateline: NBC 50 Crimetime Saturday (9 p.m.) CBS5.38 --------------------------------------------51 Wife Swap (8 p.m.)ABC5.37 52 The OfficeNBC5.33 53 Desperate HousewivesABC5.18 54 La Fea Bella 55 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX5.05 --------------------------------------------56 According to Jim (9 p.m.)ABC4.98 57 Dateline: NBC 58 SupernannyABC4.88 59 Most WantedFOX4.87 60 La Fea Bella --------------------------------------------61 Treasure HuntersNBC4.76 62 Teen Choice FOX4.75 63 64 Preseason 65 La Fea Bella --------------------------------------------66 MediumNBC4.66 67 George Lopez (9:30 p.m.)ABC4.65 68 According to Jim (8:30 p.m.) ABC4.60 69 George Lopez (8:30 p.m.)ABC4.59 70 La Fea Bella --------------------------------------------71 George Lopez (9 p.m.)ABC4.48 72 La Fea Bella 73 74 Las VegasNBC4.29 75 George Lopez (8 p.m.)ABC4.27 --------------------------------------------76 Cops (8 p.m.)FOX4.20 According to Jim (8 p.m.)ABC4.20 78 Gymnastics (Sun.) NBC4.11 79 Barrera de Amor Barrera de Amor --------------------------------------------81 Kyle XYABC3.91 82 PsychNBC3.81 83 Barrera de Amor 84 Crimetime Saturday (8 p.m.) CBS3.77 85 The SimpsonsFOX3.59 --------------------------------------------86 Barrera de Amor 87 WWE 88 Barrera de Amor 89 CristinaUNI3.30 90 Dateline: NBC --------------------------------------------91 Aqui AhoraUNI3.21 92 Gymnastics (Sat.) NBC3.18 93 Heridas de Amor 94 Don Francisco PresentaUNI2.91 95 Heridas de Amor --------------------------------------------96 Cantando por un Sueno UNI2.84 97 Heridas de Amor 98 Heridas de Amor 99 RebaWB2.53 100 Heridas de Amor --------------------------------------------101 Casos VidaUNI2.49 102 Teen Choice Red Carpet FOX2.31 103 Everybody Hates ChrisUPN2.29 104 Que Madre Tan Padre UNI2.21 105 Blue Collar TV (8 p.m.)WB2.20 --------------------------------------------106 SmallvilleWB2.17 107 Sabado GiganteUNI2.06 108 Charmed (8 p.m.)WB1.98 109 Living With FranWB1.93 110 Blue Collar TV 2 (8:30 p.m.) WB1.88 --------------------------------------------111 7th Heaven (9 p.m.)WB1.81 Charmed (9 p.m.)WB1.81 113 GirlfriendsUPN1.80 114 SupernaturalWB1.79 115 All of Us --------------------------------------------116 Hora PicoUNI1.74 117 Love Inc.UPN1.70 118 Half and Half 119 Just LegalWB1.59 120 One on OneUPN1.57 --------------------------------------------121 EveUPN1.56 122 7th Heaven (8 p.m.)WB1.50 123 What I Like About YouWB1.48 124 Gilmore Girls (9 p.m.)WB1.46 125 Gilmore Girls (8 p.m.)WB1.45 --------------------------------------------126 TwinsWB1.37 127 CutsUPN1.34 128 Casos FamiliaUNI1.30 129 Next Top Model 6 UPN1.28 130 Decisiones --------------------------------------------131 Veronica Mars (9 p.m.)UPN1.16 132 All of Us Decisiones 134 One Tree HillWB1.09 135 Veronica Mars (8 p.m.)UPN1.08 --------------------------------------------136 Decisiones 137 Amores de Mercado (Thu.) TEL0.95 138 Amores de Mercado (Tue.) TEL0.94 139 Tierra de Pasiones 140 Tierra de Pasiones --------------------------------------------141 Decisiones 142 Amores de Mercado (Wed.) TEL0.88 Viuda de Blanco 144 Tierra de Pasiones Half and Half --------------------------------------------146 Amores de Mercado Tierra de Pasiones Decisiones 149 Tierra de Pasiones 150 Amores de Mercado (Mon.) TEL0.79 --------------------------------------------151 Viuda de Blanco 152 Cinemundo del SabadoTEL0.76 153 Cinemundo PremierTEL0.74 154 Viuda de Blanco 155 Viuda de Blanco --------------------------------------------156 Viuda de Blanco 157 Cinemundo PremierTEL0.42 158 LoteriaTEL0.39 159 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date CBS7.5311.23 NBC6.488.80 FOX6.328.98 ABC5.769.35 UNI3.333.55 UPN1.822.83 WB1.722.77 TEL0.830.89 Prime-Time TV Rankings From City News Service The finales of unscripted series dominated TV viewing last week, capturing four of the top nine spots, including a 1-2 finish by Got according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. finale of the NBC talent show was the most- watched show between Aug.14 and Sunday, with 12.05million viewers, and its final performance show the night before was second with 11.63 million. They were the most-watched prime- time programs since coverage of All-Star Game drew 14.42 million viewers July11. two-hour finale of You Think You Can Wednesday was divided into two hourlong segments for advertising and ratings purposes, and the final hour attracted 10.65million viewers.

The last hour of the Aug. 14 finale of competitive cooking show drew a series-high 9.55 million viewers, putting it ninth for the week. CBS won the ratings race for the 12th consecutive week, thanks to reruns of its crime dramas and Reality finales rule itself down not in the pursuit of style points but in an effort to frame the relationship between solid and void, nature and color and its absence and to explore how the eye sees and the mind understands those differences. $30-million building in Toledo, which will open to the public on Sunday, qualifies on all those counts, and as such despite its modest size of 76,000 square feet, half of which is buried in a basement level it packs asignificant architectural punch. Even more successfully than Yoshio 2004 renovation of the Museum of Modern Art, which lacks its fluidity and economy, the Glass Pavilion offers a resounding response to the idea that museums, in an era of never-ending expansion, need to deploy formally aggressive, eye-catching architecture to stay competitive.

The free-standing pavilion stands across a four-lane road from the 1912 Neoclassical main building, which holds afine if not very deep collection of mostly Western art including Thomas famous 1840 panorama on the history of architectural styles and a 1992 classroom wing by Frank Gehry. Seen from the broad steps of the 1912 building, the Glass Pavilion threatens to disappear into the landscape of grass and trees surrounding it. True, a rather obvious conceit to design a transparent building to hold transparent works of art in this case, a vast collection that includes Egyptian spice jars, Venetian goblets and a giant cut-glass punch bowl by Libbey Glass whose president, Edward Drummond Libbey, founded the museum in 1901. But there is strength in the re- straintand an undeniable perfectionism. Architecture like this is a high-wire act.

A single misconceived design gesture or choice of material can throw the whole thing off balance. Above ground, the building is asimple, low-slung box, just 15 feet high. It is wrapped entirely in glass: museum answer to Philip 1949 Glass House in New Canaan, Conn. Inside, a handful of rooms hide behind plaster walls, which contain most of the steel that, together with a few thin white columns, holds up the roof. But for the most part the galleries and public rooms of the building are created by delicate, curving glass panels that seem capable of propping up little more than a paperback.

Made of low-iron glass clearer than traditional architectural glass, which can look faintly green the panels are slotted into serpentine tracks that run along the ceiling and the floor. Though fixed in place, they appear, in a stunning visual trick, to have been pulled through the building like curtains. Like all of the most impressive work by SANAA, which has three Japanese museums to its credit, the pavilion is transparent, largely colorless and almost obsessively precise. Walking through it, you can easily understand its architectural plan, as if you were tracing a giant blueprint with your footsteps. A plain white ceiling with recessed lighting and ground-concrete floors further the sense of restraint.

On the lower level, classroom and storage spaces are utilitarian. Whenever the design veers in the direction of severity or humorlessness, saved by its interest in shifting, shimmering visual effects in exploring the full architectural spectrum from atransparent wall to one fully opaque. When you stand outside the pavilion and spot trees or people on the other side, you are looking through more than a dozen layers of glass, each of them reflecting the sunlight or the interior of the building or the trees in a different way. The programming also helps in this regard. The building devotes roughly a fifth of its above-ground space to glass-blowing hot shops, which during museum hours and at night will be used by local artists and for classes.

These rooms, which include seating for museum visitors, introduce an element of performance and physical action that help balance the necessary emphasis on introspection. If you stand in the main hallway which itself bends like a piece of molten glass as itleads from one of the entrances to the other you can look one way and see pieces of art on simple gray pedestals and the other way to see artists blowing glass. Even the smallest bit of color thrums in these surroundings. One day last week, the green gloves worn by museum staffers as they placed glass objects on glass shelves in the open storage room glowed like neon, and the small circular openings in the glass-blowing furnaces suggested the orange eyes of an animal. By the standards of their profession, Sejima, 49, and Nishiza- wa, 40, are still quite young.

Though they maintain individual practices and though Seji- ma is far better known than her partner, who is still establishing himself as a solo architect it is as SANAA, the firm they founded in 1995, that they have gained prominent international commissions, including a forthcoming branch of the Louvre in Lens, France. Their design for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, under construction on the Bowery in Manhattan, will open at the end of next year. A mismatched stack of boxes, it represents a new tack for the pair: It is taller and more solid, willfully less elegant, than their previous work. In that sense, the Toledo project opens this weekend as the culmination of a worth of gracefully rigorous, Judd-like exploration. It suggests that architectural Minimalism, long associated with a small group of architects includ- ing John Pawson, reached the end of its relevance that buildings can say as much, in a culture that is increasingly overloaded with imagery of all kinds, with what they leave out as what they include.

The design also stakes out one side of an increasingly animated debate in the art world about the kind of architecture that best serves museums as they expand, and whether buildings that make a priority of creating successful rooms for showing art can also create the buzz and increased attendance that museum directors crave. The debate has yet to be fully resolved. (How could it when Toledo project and Daniel new wing for the Denver Art Museum, with its jagged, exploding forms, are opening within six weeks of one another?) Still, the Glass Pavilion makes its case with unusual persuasiveness. In response to a seemingly endless stream of queries from Toledo residents, the museum has prepared not one but two lists of questions and answers about the new building. They include entries about how often the exterior walls will have to be cleaned (twice a year), whether birds will fly into them (probably not, since the surrounding trees are so much taller) and whether all that glass will turn the building into a greenhouse in summer (the architects hope not, since they installed a sealed cavity between the outside and inside walls to moderate the inside temperatures and lined some of the rooms with light-reflecting curtains).

That level of curious interest from the public, even if it verges on the skeptical, offers further inoculation against the notion that the pavilion is somehow not quite daring enough to compete in the hyper-competitive world of contemporary museum architecture. Conservative buildings often arrive with FAQs in tow. Photographs from Toledo Museum of Art TRANSPARENCY: The pavilion is wrapped in glass; its galleries and public rooms are created largely by curving glass panels. Modest size, notable punch LOW-SLUNG: Above ground, the building is just 15 feet high; half of its space is in a basement level. CONTENTS: $30-million building houses a collection that includes Egyptian spice jars and Venetian goblets.

Toledo, from Page E1 Both items were removed from display in July. go back to Greece the end of the Brand said. Like Italian officials who have long contended that the Getty has more than 50 items that left Italy illegally, Greek officials have contended for a decade that the relief and stele were looted. Getty officials said they had never knowingly bought looted items, but they also said that internal scholarly review it was to return these two. Brand said the deal was signed after a Getty visit by Hellenic Ministry of Culture officials on Thursday and Friday.

The Getty and the Greeks will talk By Christopher Reynolds Times Staff Writer The Getty Museum and Greek officials have settled details of a tentative July agreement that will send two of the disputed antiquities back to Greece. But two other contested items remain in limbo. Under the deal signed Sunday, the Getty is returning a Boe- tian stele that dates to the 4th century BC and a Thasian relief that is about 100 years older. The Getty bought the stele through a New York dealer in 1993, museum director Michael Brand said, and the relief was bought by J. Paul Getty himself in 1955.

further about the two other contested items, Brand said, including a gold funerary wreath. Both items were bought in 1993. Brand noted that that conversation could include discussion of future loans from Greece to the Getty. Earlier this year, Greek law enforcement officials raised the prospect of criminal prosecutions over the looted items a step that Italy has already taken in its trial of former Getty antiquities curator Marion True. Brand said the museum had been negotiating with cultural officials, not law enforcement, but added that you sign and return objects, seeking closure on those Getty signs deal to return 2 Greek items.